m.2305. ON SOME FOREST LEPIDOPTERA—HEINRICH. 61 



Family PHALONIIDAE. 



COMMOPHiLA INFEIINALIS, new species. 



Plate 2, figs. 11, 13. 



Palpi projecting no more than tvAce the length of the head be- 

 yond it, white shading to creamy white. Antennae grayish white. 

 Face and head white sliading to creamy white. Thorax creamy 

 white, the posterior two-thirds overlaid with dull metallic gray scales. 

 Forewings creamy wfiite (almost yellow) with cross marnings of 

 metallic gray edged vnth brown and blacK scales; to the naked eye 

 these cross markings are a nearly uniform olivaceous hue; a broad 

 outwardly angulate basal patch of the dark scahng; an irregular me- 

 dia,n fascia of the same color, broadest at the costa, and greatly con- 

 stricted at the upper margin of the cell; from outer fourth a simi- 

 larly colored cuneiform band extending nearly to tomus and divided 

 on costa by a patch of creamy white; the white areiis of the wing 

 faintly lined and mottled with gray; cilia yellowish white. Under 

 side of forewings pale, sinning, giajish, faintly m.ottled with darker 

 metallic gra,y. Hmd wings shining, grayish white, mottled through- 

 out with pale fuscous; cilia whitish fuscous. Legs white, fore and 

 middle pair heavily dusted with grayish fuscous on the outer sides. 

 A.lar expanse: 10-15 mm. Male genitalia of tj^pe figured. 



TIaUtat. — Hell Canyon, Manzano National Forest, New Mexico. 

 (ITeinrich.) 



Food PJmii. — Salnna scojndomm, ("The Cedro"). 



A good series of moths reared under Hopk. U. S. No. i3967ff from 

 larrae feeding in the berries. Larvae collected September 14, 1916. 

 Moths issued May to August, 1917. 



T/./p^.— Cat. No. 21805, U.S.N.M. 



Very close to macrocarpana Walsingham. The two species have 

 practically the same pattern and coloration, but differ in size, length 

 of paljn, color on under side of fore wings ajid male genitalia. C. in- 

 fcrnalis is smaller, has shorter pa]])3 and is paler on tlie under sur- 

 face of the forewhigs, has a stouter aedoeagus and longer stronger 

 spines (cornuti) on the penis than macrocarpana. The genitalia 

 differences are shown in figures 12-13. 



The larva is white and unmarked. Legs white, tubercles and 

 spiracles unpigmented; body hairs white; abdominal crochets 

 weak, pale yellowish brown, 7-8; Uioracic shield only sHghtly more 

 yellovvdsh than body with an irregularly triangular fuscous sliading 

 on caudal margin on each side of the broad white median hue; anal 

 shield very pale yellow. Head pale yellow; a darker patch in 

 ocellar region; endoskeletal ridges, antennal ring of epicranium, and 

 mandibles brovrn; triangular plates of hypostoma dark smoky 



